... in 1873 the railroads replaced their workers with automatons, but when a man named John Henry died in his fateful contest with a robot pile-driver, the robots learned what happens to things that become "obsolete". They promptly turned on their human masters.
With no weapons able to overcome the robot menace, the bloodshed and loss of life was too massive for the young country still reeling from the civil war. President Grant, weary of war, choose to cut his losses and ceded everything west of the Mississippi to the robots.
Then in 1886, a young scientist named Nikola Tesla invented a new kind of pistol. the Tesla Electron Bolt Thrower. Armed with this new weapon the "Tesla Rangers" were formed to re-take the west.
Ok here's another experiment. A recruitment poster. making this actually helped me hash out the backstory for the Tesla Rangers -
... in 1873 the railroads replaced their workers with automatons, but when John Henry died in his fateful contest with a robot pile-driver, the robots learned what happens to things that become "obsolete". They promptly turned on their human masters.
With no weapons able to overcome the robot menace, the bloodshed and loss of life was too massive for the young country already reeling from the civil war. Eventually president Grant, weary of war, ceded everything west of the Mississippi to the robots.
Then in 1886, a young scientist named Nikola Tesla invented a new kind of pistol. the Tesla Electron Bolt Thrower. Armed with this new weapon the "Tesla Rangers" were formed to re-take the west.
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A little speed painting I did to try and loosen up. This is how I'd repaint a Nerf Maverick to be a Tesla Ranger Dragoon
"Short Stories At the Far Side of Weird"
I have a new story reading in this weeks Drabblecast. The Drabblecast is a podcast of weird Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Everything In-Between, Narrated and Produced by Norm Sherman.
I read the second of 3 stories "Behindeye: A History" in
Drabblecast 160- Trifecta XII
For a while now I've had this idea to make my own line of "badges" for law enforcement agencies that never existed - the first one is a LoneStar-and-Gear shaped TESLA RANGERS badge - and is available via the
shiny new Girl Genius webstore. Here is the blurb to go with it...
Haven't you always wanted to enforce the laws of Science? (All right, I know, most of you would rather break them, but that's why we need some trustworthy lawmen 'round these parts.)
It even has a space to add your own individual badge number. Mmmm. DIY!
In other news
Girl Genius has been nominated for a second Hugo award in the category of "Best Graphic Story" - can we pull it off two years in a row? ... hang on, I buried the lead here. Let me try again...
That's better... - can we pull it off two years in a row? Wow that'd be awesome.
Really unlikely, based on our competition again this year. but really awesome if we did.
While digging though an old file tree, I found this invitation I made for a Christmas party in 2008. Sadly the party was snowed out that year - but the invite continues to make me happy that I made the effort. Also - should anyone wish to license "Danger Corset" or "Utili-Corset" have your people call my people...
